We Study the Digital Society

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 17, 2017

Sociologists in the Digital Wild

Recently we discussed the controversy surrounding a new paper on artificial intelligence and sexuality by Wang and Kosinski. Really smart analysis continues to emerge. Sociologist Greggor Mattson shares his expert thoughts on how we study marginalized communities.

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 13, 2017

Your Debt, Your Self: Classification Situations in the Digital Society

I wrote a book about for-profit colleges that was released earlier this year. Student loan debt is a big part of that story. Frankly, debt is the main reason anyone is usually interested in for-profit…

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 19, 2017

Moderating the Digital Square

When we use social media we often think of it as “public”. Yet, the platforms that mediate the content we produce online are rarely public. This conflation of public square with private media is one defining characteristic of the digital society.

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Oct 12, 2017

Racial Projects in Black Box Societies

From Omi and Winant to Pasquale in Pictures

In our Digital Sociology graduate seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University, we are working on how to systematically study how racial categories derive their meaning in a digital society.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 14, 2017

Get Your Learn On(line)

I know a bit about online higher education. It has its plusses and its minuses. As faculty co-founder of the digital sociology master’s of science program at Virginia Commonwealth University, I have thought deeply about online instruction. And, I am still learning all the time.

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Kristin Vamenta in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 23, 2017

The royal court of #content

When “content is king,” what kinds of power are afforded to creators and…

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

May 12, 2018

What Communities Are We Building? A Discussion With Drs. Jessie Daniels and David Golumbia

This semester our sociology honor society, Alpha Kappa Delta, had the great fortune to hear from Dr. Jessie Daniels. Jessie is a sociologist whose expertise is in, among many…

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LC Garcia in Digital Sociology at VCU

Oct 2, 2017

theorizing race on the internet

With the recent events in Charlottesville, social scientists across the country have been attempting to make sense of the new face of white supremacy and the modality it uses: the internet. New research from Charlton McIlwain published in Information, Communication &…

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

Sep 13, 2017

Artificial Intelligence “Gaydar”

Those of us who study the digital society have a complex set of issues around the data we use to study…

Tressie McMillan Cottom in Digital Sociology at VCU

May 18, 2018

Whose Speech? More From Our Chat With Jessie Daniels

As previously mentioned, the Sociology students at VCU recently benefitted from a chance to hear from Jessie Daniels. Our informal discussion before Jessie’s talk is one way our academic community opens up rigorous discourse for various…

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Digital Sociology at VCU

The Digital Sociology Magazine is the public-facing community of the digital sociology program in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. We study intersecting inequalities in the digital society. http://digital.sociology.vcu.edu

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